AMD Radeon R9 390 X2 vs ATI Radeon HD 5490

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390 X2 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5490 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 390 X2 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

2480 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5490 's Advantages

Lower TDP (19W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 390 X2 +4823%

5.12 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5490

0.104 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390 X2

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Radeon HD 5490

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Oct 2012

Pirate Islands

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

2

2560

Shading Units

80

160

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

160.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.200 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.120 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

104.0 GFLOPS

640.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Grenada

GPU Name

Cedar

Grenada PRO (215-0880030)

GPU Variant

Cedar XTX

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

59 mm²

Board Design

580W

TDP

19W

950 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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